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“I cannot imagine how I would have ever known to write my own poems had Claude McKay not written his.” Jericho Brown on Claude McKay’s subversive poems of love and protest. | Lit Hub Poetry
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It’s a big week for new books: here are 21 titles coming your way. | The Hub
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“You cannot make them do what you want because look, it’s a sword. A sword means no.” Gwen E. Kirby on Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and her own literary “stabby period.” | Lit Hub
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Lessons from The Princess Bride: break the rules of storytelling… but maybe not all of them. | Lit Hub Craft
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Charlotte Higgins and Stacey Swann discuss why we return to the Greeks myths again and again (and again). | Lit Hub
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Is there a serial killer lurking in the Himalayas’ Parvati Valley? Harley Rustad probes the mysteries of the lost. | Lit Hub
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This month’s 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers features Evan Hughes, Andrew Lipstein, Nikki May, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Weike Wang. | Lit Hub
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“It turned out that it’s possible.” Lejla Kalamujić on being openly gay in Sarajevo. | Lit Hub Radio
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“It never occurred to me to write something people want to read.” Read a profile of Hanya Yanagihara. | The New Yorker
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Dan Falk on the remarkable work of Curious George author H.A. Rey, whose astronomy books recreated star maps with “wit, grace, and accuracy.” | Nautilus
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On the history of Mississippi’s Freedom Libraries and the fight for library equality. | JSTOR Daily
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What’s the perfect first Wordle guess? Linguists, engineers, and puzzle obsessives are on the case. | The Ringer
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Well, this isn’t great: Americans are reading fewer books than they used to, according to a new poll. | Gallup
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Thinking about starting a DIY project? These books could help get it off the ground. | Book Riot
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“Grief should remind us to pay attention to the everyday.” Kathryn Schulz discusses writing about loss—and reflecting on it during a pandemic. | Los Angeles Times
Also on Lit Hub: How stolen cultural artifacts made their way to a major museum • A poem from Vijay Seshadri’s collection • Read from Antoine Wilson’s latest novel, Mouth to Mouth
